Annual Lecture
First presented in 1983, the Annual Lecture supports the National Gallery’s mission to lead the national cultural agenda through art. Coinciding with the opening of the National Gallery in October 1982, the Annual Lecture invites leading art world thinkers to present new ideas in the field of art and art history.
Past presenters of the Annual Lecture include:
| John Golding (1983) | Douglas Newton (1984) | John Elderfield (1986) |
| Theodore Reff (1987) | Elisabeth McGrath (1988) | Djon Mundine (1989) |
| Anne-Imelda M Radic (1990) | Virginia Spate (1991) | Robert Hughes (1992) |
| Neil MacGregor (1993) | T.J. Clark (1994) | John Richardson (1995) |
| Nicholas Serota (1996) | Brian Kennedy (1997) | Rudi Fuchs (1998) |
| Peter Wilson (2000) | Peter Carey (2001) | Peter Conrad (2003) |
| James Turrell (2005) | Ronald de Leeuw (2006) | Andrew Andersons (2007) |
| Michael Brand (2008) | Axel Rüger (2009) | Neil MacGregor (2012) |
| Glenn Lowry (2014) | Marc Quinn (2017) | Djon Mundine (2018) |
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Dr Crystal McKinnon & Paola Balla (2020) |
Kara Walker (2022) | Lindy Lee (2024) |
Watch Past lectures
Kara Walker, image courtesy and © the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, photograph: Ari Marcopoulos
Annual Lecture 2022
With Kara Walker
Annual Lecture 2021
With Dr Crystal McKinnon and Paola Balla
Annual Lecture 2011
With Glenn Lowry
